Happy Days on My Bike
Wow, so today the run around the resevoir didn't happen. But even better did happen. It's 70 degrees here in Denver and my wonderful Hubby became Mr.Mom today so I could ride ride ride. Since Troy had to drop and pick up Annie from school, and we only have one car (love this) I decided to ride my bike to and from Steve's house with the actual ride in the middle. This meant I was to leave the house at 6:15 am, and for some reason I thought it would be light. It wasn't. I was headed in the opposite direction of all the commuting trafic, so other than people coming out of neighborhoods and turning I had my side of the road to myself. It was a blissful ride.
Once at Steves we took off to meet Tyler and Christy at our normal meet-up location. Everyone was in great spirits. It was so fun to chat and joke up Deer Creek. Tyler had time for a piece of Highgrade, and Steve had time for City View so I tagged along with Steve through City view. Half way up Highgrade I sort-of lost my fizzle and realized my breakfast was long gone. After Tyler departed and Steve hung back for me I downed a sandwich and perked back up.
Getting back to Steve's and knowing I had another 60-70 minutes of riding to get home wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I refilled my bottles, had some Clif Shot Bloks and headed on my way. It was beautiful out and I even thought I might get a sunburn. Highlands Ranch has a lot of hills, how does anyone live there? I love hills, but seriously, it's like they put them there on purpose.
All in all 6.5 hours after I left I rolled back into my garage. It was a great day, with great company. Thank you Ty for the gloves!
I learned: Knee Warmers ROCK THE HOUSE. After borrowing a set of these from Steve, I am smitten with them and want like 500 pairs.
I also learned: Laughing makes riding more fun.
The best part: No pain today (or yesterday, or the day before). To all of you out there that are injured, I feel (deep in my core) for you and hope that pain free days are in your future because...THEY ROCK!